>> pelley: tonight, the president was told that the web site was in trouble. newly revealed documents show just how much the administration knew about the problems with healthcare.gov. major garrett's at the white house. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. cheating death-- dean reynolds on why so many survived the midwest tornadoes. the tesla electric car gets top ratings, but now, ben tracy tells us the government's investigating a possible hazard. and chip reid on the search for abraham lincoln 150 years after the gettysburg address. is he in this picture? >> the hair, the high cheek bones and the brow all said to me that was him. captioning sponsored by cbs

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the federal government's health insurance web site has had so many problems since it was rolled out on october 1, the question has been, why didn't anyone warn the president? well, it turns out someone did. the white house acknowledged today that administration officials, including president obama, were briefed on a consultant's report six months before healthcare.gov went online, a report that said problems were coming. nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, administration officials said today they took this report's warnings into account and made changes, but republicans argue that its very existence casts doubts on claims by the president on down that they were caught by surprise. with startling foresight, the consulting firm mckinsey predicted more than six months ago that the rollout of healthcare.gov would be hobbled by evolving requirements,

insufficient time for end-to-end testing, and significant dependency on external parties and contractors. louisiana republican steve scalise: >> this report lays out the chaos that was going on, but all of this information was known within the white house. >> reporter: mckinsey was hired by the administration to do the review and interviewed 40 people involved with the web site, including henry chao, a key manager at the centers for medicare and medicaid. today, chao testified he never saw the 14-page presentation. >> i think i was aware that some document was being prepared because i had gone through the interviews, but towards the end, when the briefings occurred, i was not part them. >> reporter: chao told michigan's john dingell recent fears about the web site's security are unfounded. >> is healthcare.gov safe? >> yes. >> reporter: but at a separate hearing, a panel of security experts called the site's safety

measures flimsy and ill constructed. david kennedy runs a security consulting firm. >> i would say the web site is hacker-ready or will be soon. >> reporter: new york republican chris collins: >> do any of you today think today the site is secure? >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> reporter: centers for medicare and medicaid responded today that site security is their top priority, and that the system gets tested daily. democrats argue, scott, that republicans are using these hearings to scare americans into avoiding the web site. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. major, what are they saying there? >> reporter: scott, the president was briefed in early april on the outside report predicting big problems for the web site. he was also told about steps being taken to address the design flaws, steps that were clearly not enough. this is the president earlier today. >> there's no doubt that we've lost some time, but the web site's getting better each week.

by the end of this month, it will be functioning for the majority of people who are using it. so i think we're going to have time to catch up. >> reporter: scott, this is clearly a story where the president was briefed on problems, but thought they were small enough they could be addressed. and he was so much more focused on building the marketplaces and insurance options for consumers that he and so many of his senior white house staff overlooked these design flaw predictions, thought the web site would work, and have learned, to their dissatisfaction and regret, it does not. >> pelley: major, thanks very much. today, america's largest bank agreed to the largest payout in history to atone for its misdeeds in the financial meltdown that led to the great recession. jp morgan chase will pay $13 billion in a settlement with the u.s. justice department. unlike most of these deals, jp morgan chase will still face possible criminal prosecution. attorney general eric holder supervised the settlement and our bob orr spoke with him

today. >> and i've insisted that we hold everyone at every institution accountable, even in a civil matter or criminal matter, and to the extent we can make criminal cases, we're going to do so. >> reporter: is it possible somebody could go to jail? >> yes. >> pelley: holder says jp morgan chase bundled together mortgages that were doomed to fail and sold them as high-quality investments to unsuspecting investors. this settlement is rare because it forced the bank to admit wrongdoing. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: in the largest settlement with any company in american history, jp morgan chase will pay $6 billion to investors that bought its bad mortgages, plus $2 billion in fines to the u.s. government, another billion in restitution to the states, and another $4 billion in consumer relief, including mortgage relief for homeowners at risk of foreclosure. >> this settlement is a major victory. >> reporter: new york state attorney general eric schneiderman co-chaired the investigation.

the bank, he says, acknowledges in the settlement it sold toxic loans its employees knew were at a high risk of default. is this an admission of fraud? >> essentially. >> reporter: legally? >> yes. >> reporter: a lot of people look at a settlement like this, and they may say, "why isn't somebody going to jail?" >> all i can say is, it is now in the hands of federal prosecutors who have the ability to bring criminal charges and there was no release from criminal liability for any individual or institution in this settlement. >> reporter: schneiderman says there could be bigger settlements with other banks ahead. >> i'm happy they're being held liable and responsible for having ripped off a lot of us. >> reporter: gloria jackson and her partner, tanya cotton, lost their california home to foreclosure in 2007 when the payments on their adjustable rate mortgage with countrywide jumped by $1,000 a month. >> i still feel that there was big harm done. >> reporter: jp morgan chase has

now paid out nearly $19 billion just this year to settle mortgage cases that also involved bear stearns and washington mutual, two companies it bought during the financial crisis. >> pelley: five years after the meltdown. >> reporter: exactly, scott. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. late today, a sharply divided u.s. supreme court gave texas the go-ahead to continue enforcing its new abortion restrictions. the vote was 5-4. under these new rules, doctors in texas who perform abortions in clinics must also have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. that rule has forced more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions. there is an ominous development in the middle east that is raising concerns that a religious war may be spreading beyond borders. today, bombs exploded at the iranian embassy in beirut, lebanon. 23 people were killed. iranian troops are fighting in neighboring syria to support the dictatorship there.

the civil war in syria is in its third year, and it's become, in large part, a fight between the two main branches of islam, the sunni and the shi'a, a rift that extends throughout the region. clarissa ward is in beirut. >> reporter: there was panic and chaos in the first moments after today's attacks. this morning, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated himself just outside iran's embassy gate. moments later, a much larger car bomb exploded down the street. most of those killed were innocent bystanders. a little-known extremist group with ties to al qaeda, the abdullah azzam brigades, claimed responsibility for the bombings. the group said that the attack was in retaliation for iran's support of the assad regime in neighboring syria. iran is the main backer of the lebanese militia hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to join assad's forces.

in the past months, those fighters have tipped the balance in favor of the syrian troops. this is not the first time that syria's war has spilled over into neighboring countries, but today's attack on the iranian embassy has raised fears that the violence may now escalate. >> pelley: clarissa has been covering the war in syria from the start. she's in lebanon tonight. clarissa, syria has become the place where the shi'a and sunni fight each other. help us understand what is going on. >> reporter: scott, essentially, this boils down to a struggle for regional power between the two main branches of islam. iran and hezbollah are shiite, which makes them natural allies to the assad regime in syria fighting a sunni rebellion funded by oil-rich sunni countries like qatar and saudi arabia. >> pelley: how does lebanon fit into this? >> reporter: lebanon is in a precarious situation because they have a large sunni and

shiite population and this country fought its own brutal civil war for 15 long years, scott. so nobody here wants to see that happen again. >> pelley: a civil war that ended in 1990. clarissa ward for us in beirut tonight, thank you. in this country, eight people were killed on sunday in the midwest when dozens of tornadoes cut through seven states. no town was hit harder than washington, illinois, near peoria. we were surprised to hear there was only one fatality there. we asked dean reynolds to find out how washington escaped a larger tragedy. >> hail mary, full of grace. >> reporter: as the monstrous twister bore down on washington, illinois, don dempsey was watching television at home. >> the local weather forecasters were on there, and they were saying, "go to the basement immediately. it's coming up through marquette heights towards washington." >> reporter: several hundred miles away, meteorologists at the storm prediction center in

norman, oklahoma, had been working the weather system for days. >> go, go, go, go! >> reporter: issuing a particularly dangerous situation tornado watch for much of illinois at 8:40 a.m. sunday. within an hour of that notice, the national weather system office in lincoln, illinois, 40 miles from washington, ramped up from two workers to 12. patrick came in on his day off. >> they knew within the next couple of hours, things were going to go, and once they went, they were going to go rapidly. >> reporter: how did you react personally to what you were observing? >> just looking at that on radar, it looked like it was going to be very bad. >> reporter: his office fired off three warnings, starting at 10:50 a.m., 16 minutes before the storm hit washington. "you are in a life-threatening situation," said the last warning. "complete destruction possible. flying debris will be deadly." as you look at the disaster here, you must conclude your warning system worked. >> the warning system looks like

it worked exceptionally well in this case. >> reporter: the national weather service says that, over the last five years, the average lead time of warning for an approaching tornado was 13 minutes. so, scott, the 16-minute heads- up given here to the public in washington provided three precious minutes. >> pelley: dean reynolds. thank you, dean. a virginia state senator has own h been stabbed in his own house. george zimmerman had to give up something to get out of jail. and is the car of the year at risk of catching fire? when the cbs evening news continues.

>> pelley: today, the u.s. government opened an investigation into whether a cutting edge electric car, the tesla model "s", is vulnerable to fires. ben tracy tells us the focus is on the car's battery pack. >> reporter: the tesla model "s" is "motor trend" magazine's car of the year. this summer, the national highway traffic safety administration gave the $70,000 car its highest safety rating ever. >> that's a brand new car. >> reporter: three model "s"s have caught fire, two after hitting debris and one after a driver hit a concrete wall. no one was injured in any of the

incidents, and today, tesla said they welcome the investigation. where is the battery pack in this car? in august, we talked to tesla's c.e.o., elon musk. >> that's where the battery pack goes. >> reporter: the battery pack is placed under the passenger compartment. at highway speeds, the car is just five inches from the ground. if debris pierces the battery pack, it can ignite. is the challenge here the fear of the unknown and fear of the technology some people feel is unproven. >> yes, an electric car is still an unknown car to people. it takes people a while to get comfortable with new technology and verify that it really works as claimed. >> reporter: tesla has sold about 19,000 model "s"s, so three fires is one fire per 6,333 tesla cars. >> safety was always top of the

list, and at least so far, nobody has ever died in a tesla vehicle. >> reporter: now, tesla is now extending the warranty on its cars to cover fire damage, and that's fire damage, even if it's caused by the driver. and, scott, this is interesting. the company is also issuing a software upgrade for the suspension system on the models, that will prevent the cars from getting too close to the ground at the freeway speeds. >> pelley: ben tracy in our los angeles news room. ben, thanks very much. there is news tonight about the english language. the folks who publish the oxford dictionary have named "selfie" the word of the year. a self self-portrait, often taken with a smart phone. this is a selfie of our evening news research department. oxford estimates use of the word in the past year has increased 17,000%. we'll ask research to check that out. we'll be right back. of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®.

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altercation early today inside his rural virginia home. police say the 55-year-old democrat, who unsuccessfully ran for governor of virginia four years ago, was apparently stabbed by his son, 24-year-old gus deeds, who was found inside the family home dead of a gunshot. john gelalia speaks for the virginia state police. >> based on the evidence we have, we are looking at this as an attempted murder and suicide. >> reporter: police say deeds and his son were the only people home at the time of the incident, and investigators are not looking for any other suspects in the case. deeds, a moderate democrat who opposes same-sex marriage and some gun control measures, enlisted the support of the president in his failed gubernatorial bid. deeds was also supported on the campaign trail by his son, gus, but outside the public eye, gus may have had private struggles. the college of william and mary said gus, a music major, had been enrolled as a student in 2007, but withdrew from the college last month.

and the "richmond times- dispatch" newspaper reports gus deeds went through a mental health evaluation on monday as part of an emergency custody order. the paper says he was released because no psychiatric bed was available in western virginia. local mental health officials will not confirm it, but a study virginia had a shortage of from 2012 found virginia had a shortage of psychiatric beds, only enough to meet a third of the demands. >> pelley: a problem across the country. george zimmerman was released from a florida jail today after posting $9,000 bail and agreeing to give up his firearms. zimmerman is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend during a fight. she also told police he tried to choke her a week and a half ago. zimmerman is the former neighborhood watch volunteer found not guilty of murdering trayvon martin. is the man who delivered the gettysburg address seven score and ten years ago in this photograph? that story is next.

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>> our fathers brought forth on this continent... >> a new nation, conceived in liberty... >> and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> pelley: four american presidents reciting the opening of the gettysburg address. as thousands gathered on the battlefield today to mark the 150th anniversary, a search is underway for the first president to deliver the most famous speech in u.s. history. here's chip reid. >> reporter: using the latest in computer technology, professor christopher oakley and his student at the university of north carol at ashville, are creating a virtual abraham lincoln. no photograph has ever been found of lincoln delivering his most famous speech. oakley, a former disney animator, said their mission is to fulfill that historical gap. >> we are trying to bring him back to life so he can deliver the gettysburg address. >> reporter: they're studying photos taken just before the speech began. while studying this one, oakley

zoomed in and stumbled upon a discovery. when you first saw that image right there and your reaction was? >> no way. i said, no way. >> reporter: way. >> yeah, and i pushed myself away from the desk and did my historian happy dance, running around my studio, hyperventilating, going "yeah!' >> reporter: to confirm his theory that the image is lincoln, oakley superimposed a photograph taken just 11 days before the speech. >> see, the ears match, the nose matches, the beard matches, the hairline matches. >> reporter: in the insular world of lincoln scholars, oakley's claim hit like a cannonball, because previously, it was widely accepted this was lincoln in the same photograph, a man on a horse wearing a stovepipe hat about 40 feet from oakley's lincoln. you've seen all of christopher oakley's evidence and you still believe the likelihood is lincoln is the guy on the horse. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: bob zoeller is president of the center for

civil war photography. >> what little we know about lincoln arriving at the ceremony before the getttysburg address was he was on horseback, and wearing white riding gloves, and that he paused to accept the salute of the troops. >> reporter: both men agree any debate about lincoln at gettysburg is a good thing if it brings attention to what he said there-- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. chip reid, cbs news, ashville, north carolina. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news, all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald and with this rain, the bay area's 60-day dry spell is finally over. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. we begin our wet weather coverage with a live look in the east bay. lots of red brake lights in this evening commute along i-80 in berkeley. rain and slick roads are making the slowdown a lot more painful tonight. let's get to paul deanno in the weather center. >> kpix 5 high-def doppler radar really picks up the rain the best in the north bay because that's where the radar is located on mount vaca. we are seeing moderate to heavy rainfall coming from ukiah south to santa rosa and see all that yellow just west of marin? that's headed toward you san

rafael, mill valley, really getting wet this evening. what are the worst commutes in 80 towards richmond and hercules, 680 from benicia south to walnut creek danville and san ramon and also highway 24 through the new fourth bore of the caldecott tunnel less wet on 680 south of dublin and the south bay finally getting rainfall but still light showers for you in and around san jose. look at all that rain moving from west to east everything you see offshore will be moving through. chopper 5 video from earlier today to show you chopper 5 up and about. it was soggy out there as gray skies and rainfall blanketed the bay area. let's get back to the computer for a second. we have already gone through the less juicy part of the storm. the more active part of the storm is what we'll get this evening. if anything, plan on more rainfall in coverage and intensity. we'll talk about how much rain we'll get and what the weekend looks like coming up. we get excited about rain because we haven't seen it. our ann notarangelo braving the